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Nicholas Pocock: Boulogne Harbour, Napoleon's army to invade England encamped in the hills behind   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Nicholas Pocock  (1740–1821)  wikidata:Q1859751
 
Nicholas Pocock
Alternative names
Nicholas Pococke; Pococke; Pocock; N. Pocock
Description British painter
Noted for detailed paintings of naval battles during the Age of Sail
Date of birth/death 2 March 1740 Edit this at Wikidata 9 March 1821 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bristol, England, UK Raymead, Cookham, Berkshire, England, UK
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London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q1859751
, after an officers sketch on HMS Euryalus
Title
Boulogne Harbour, Napoleon's army to invade England encamped in the hills behind
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English: Boulogne Harbour, Napoleon's army to invade England encamped in the hills behind

A watercolour by Pocock after a sketch by an officer who was on board HMS Euryalus at the time of the episode depicted, October 1804. Pocock's watercolour was then engraved by Medland, that engraving was illustrated on p.481 of The Naval Chronicle, for 1805, Vol. 14.
Shows the Flottille de Boulogne in the harbour, with the troop encampments on the hills.

Lot number: /25338/lot/37/ The Marine Sale 29 Oct 2019,
Depicted place Boulogne
Date between circa 1804 and circa 1805
date QS:P571,+1804-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1804-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1805-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium watercolour
Dimensions 13 x 20.5cm (5 1/8 x 8 1/16in).
Source/Photographer https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25338/lot/37/
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